
|  | 4911. mashal (maw-shal') |  | 
denominative from mashal; to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble 
 be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter. 
see HEBREW mashal